Microsoft announced IE 8 Beta 1 for Developer on MIX 08 yesterday. I download and install it today. I’m really interested in a few features:
- Activities: No more copy and paste to search, map or blog in another tab or window. Very convenient.
- Webslice: This is also a cool feature like they demo it using ebay.
- Developer tools: Very cool and useful.
- Emulate IE7: If you don’t like IE8, you can switch back to IE7 engine.
But when I tried out, still have some problems because it is still in “Beta”.
- Performance: it is too slow on my XP SP2 machine.
- Most of the website doesn’t look good. I try Yahoo, MSN, MSDN etc.
Hope it will be better in next Beta. :)